50 results for scooters

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Journeys for our editors and correspondents often start on a train or a plane but we’re also amenable to putting a little rubber to road. In that spirit we have our eyes on a few motors well suited to escaping on our own…

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Honda’s Super Cub scooter is about to enter a petrol-free future in the form of its successor, the EV-Cub. The original 1958 curves are still there, with the addition of all the requirements of affordable green transport…

Radio

Ho Chi Minh City is arguably most well known as being the site of one of the world’s most poignant political protests in the 1960s. But for modern-day visitors it is known for something more novel: scooters.

Film

What’s it like being a second city? On duty for The Escapist, Robert Bound found Chiang Mai to be an ancient town with a contemporary buzz of bars, bands and boxers, wonderful food and beautiful girls on scooters. It doe…

Monocle Minute

The New Year’s holiday is a busy time for Japan’s postal workers. While most of the country takes a well-deserved break, an army of mail carriers will fan out in trucks and vans, as well as on scooters and bicycles, to…

Monocle Minute

Japan’s two motorcycle behemoths, Yamaha and Honda, are laying old feuds aside to partner up in the production of 50cc scooters. This singular move has come amid a shrinking Japanese market and a growing need to cut costs…

Monocle Minute

While this week most eyes will be on Le Bourget, north of Paris, for the UN conference on climate change, there is a lower-key event taking place at the Paris Expo in the city’s southwest: Le Salon de la Moto. This biennial…

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Bolivia’s two main cities La Paz and Sucre each want to be the country’s sole seat of government, setting up a showdown at a critical time. President Evo Morales has convened an assembly to rewrite the constitution to give…

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The right mixture of progress and chaos is what makes the capital of Taiwan such a fun place to live. Where else would you find the world's most advanced chashless payment system as well as sprawling, hectic night markets…

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Robert Bound reporting from Chiang Mai: Thailand’s unofficial second city is a beguiling collision of contrasts: a young university town with an ancient, storied history; a town of temples and boxing stadia; monks and go…

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Whether it’s the wide, tree-lined streets of Songshan in Taipei, the quiet squares and bustling coffee shops of London’s Bloomsbury or the sunny Latin American hot spot of Barrio Italia in Santiago, step back from the…